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After many years, Microsoft admitted that Chinese authorities hacked thousands of Hotmail accounts, belonging to China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities.
After many years, Microsoft finally concluded that Chinese authorities indeed hacked thousands of Hotmail accounts, belonging to China’s Tibetan and Uyghur minorities, but at t

Security experts at FireEye have uncovered a spear phishing campaign managed by Chinese hackers that is targeting Taiwan Opposition and Media ahead of the vote in January.
According to FireEye a group of Chinese hackers is targeting Taiwan’s opposition party and journalists, security experts and officials. The attacks ar

A senior U.S. intelligence official revealed that Chinese hackers have accessed the private emails of “many” top Obama administration officials.
According to an official of the US intelligence, Chinese hackers have accessed the private emails of “many” top members of the Obama administration. The news w

US Government announced that a major data breach likely backed by Chinese hackers caused the exposure of data belonging to millions of government workers.
Once again a data breach interested systems of the US government, the Obama administration on Thursday confirmed to have been the victim of a major cyber attack. According t

Foreign hackers are targeting background investigation databases to blackmail US government personnel or to try to bribe them.
It is not a mystery that Chinese hackers continuously target US companies and government offices, the attackers usually backed by the Government of Bejing mainly run cyber espionage campaigns to steal

A State-sponsored Cyber Espionage Group -- most likely linked to the Chinese government becomes the first group to target the so-called "Air-Gapped Networks" that aren't directly connected to the Internet.What are Air-Gapped systems?Air-gapped systems are known to be the most safest and secure systems on the earth. These systems are isolated from the Inter

China has something very impressive that we are not aware of. The country has a powerful and previously unknown weapon that its government is using to bolster their cyber attack capabilities:Dubbed "The Great Cannon."INTERNET CENSORSHIP IN CHINAWhen I talk about Internet censorship, it is incomplete if I don't mention China. China is famous for its Great W

China finally admits it has special cyber warfare units — and a lot of them.From years China has been suspected by U.S. and many other countries for carrying out several high-profile cyber attacks, but every time the country strongly denied the claims. However, for the first time the country has admitted that it does have cyber warfare divisions R

A Chinese APT group was able to chain together two zero day vulnerabilities, one against Adobe’s Flash Player and one against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9, to compromise a popular news site late last year.The group’s aim was to gain access to computers at several U.S. defense and financial firms by setting up a watering hole attack on th

The Nation’s second largest Health insurer company, Anthem, alerted its customers on Wednesday that hackers had stolen the personal information of over 80 Millions of its customers, making it the largest data breach and double the number of payment cards affected by Target data breach occurred in 2013.The stolen personal information includes resident

Malware authors are trying hard to create malicious software with more innovative ways to infect victims. A new mobile Trojan horse infection has been discovered by security researchers that comes pre-loaded onto low-cost Chinese-made Android smartphones popular in Asia and Africa.The trojan, dubbed DeathRing, is a Chinese Trojan that masquerades as a ringto

It’s been almost two weeks since the WireLurker malware existence was revealed for the first time, and Chinese authorities have arrested three suspects who are allegedly the authors of the Mac- and iOS-based malware that may have infected as many as hundreds of thousands of Apple users.The Beijing Bureau of Public security has announced the arrest of t

Russian Internet traffic, including the domestic one, has continuously been re-routed outside the country due to routing errors by China Telecom, which could result in compromising the security of Russian communications.Internet monitoring service Dyn reported Thursday in a blog post that the apparent networking fault is due to the weakness in the Border gat

Chinese hackers associated with the Chinese government have successfully infiltrated the computer systems of U.S. defense contractors working with the government agency responsible for the transportation of military troops and goods across the globe, a Senate investigators have found.The Senate Armed Services Committee has been investigating the issue for t

Two Chinese cyber espionage campaigns are working in tandem in hopes of sniffing out trade secrets from surrounding nations.Researchers from FireEye outlined information about the two attack groups yesterday in advance of a more comprehensive report.Related PostsSouth Korean Data Breach Compromises 27 MillionAugust 26, 2014 , 12:55 pmAPT Gang Branches Out to